Kev, 47, who is now a "performance and wellbeing coach" and lives near Coalville, said: "I am quite well known where I live for having lots of military contacts, so when someone got in contact with me telling me they had found the medal while clearing out a flat, I wanted to help.

The pair both fought in Northern Ireland at different times

"I wanted to clean it up and get it back to its original owner, but all I had was the name B Shaw and that it was issued in 1976.